> I’ve heard that a cab owner at Cax years ago let us dump it on the floor of the show. > It might have even been Aaron that ripped it and Belmsy said there was a working > driver by Phil that couldn’t be used because it borrowed code from another emulator.
Aaron is too happy to cooperate with the American hoarding scene on one hand while throwing borderline racist insults at the Japanese hoarding scene on the other. There’s no “us” or “we” there. It may as well not be dumped or preserved, no-one’s going to see it.
If you’re talking about code inspired in any way by that 3DO emulator, that’s never going to see the light of day, either. The license is toxic – it says you can’t apply any knowledge you gain from the source to development of other emulators. That means anyone who has looked at the source can’t work on any other 3DO emulator unless they can prove they learned everything elsewhere.
Phil is also pretty well-known for doing hacky proofs-of-concept that are in no way ready to be accepted into MAME. Remember how long it took for the Fairlight CMI and Konami 3DO M2 drivers to be picked up by someone who wanted to bring them up to scratch, and we still haven’t seen the Casio Loopy stuff, either.